Summer 2018 Brexit Thread

shitshow

https://twitter.com/James4Labour/status/1017377737764429824

government shite paper

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lol ridiculous

https://twitter.com/KateProctorES/status/1017378510082658304

guardian link for what you’re talking about

it’s insane, even by the standards of everything else about brexit

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So not only can the people of Ireland look forward to a hard border (and maybe a return of the troubles) they can do it all in the dark as well.

How has the UK got itself into this situation?

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Labour’s Chris Matheson says paragraph 76 of the white paper the government says it wants to ensure that talented workers can still come to the UK from the EU. Does “talented” include nurses?

Raab says the intention is to ensure “high skilled” people can still come to the UK. That will cover all sectors, he says. He says it would be wrong for the UK to cut itself off from the skills it needs.

this doesn’t mean nurses, because they fucking hate nurses. they’ve been peddling this bizarre idea that nursing isn’t a highly skilled job for years, likely in prep for this.

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The sitting has resumed.

But Sarah Wollaston, the Conservative pro-European, asks John Bercow to suspend the sitting MPs so MPs have time to read the white paper.

Bercow refuses. He says some MPs would be strongly opposed to the idea.

functioning democracy

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Surely this is never gonna pass?

And considering EU citizens make up a large part of our ‘unskilled’ workforce in fields, factories, care homes and cafes doing the jobs brits don’t want it’s not exactly going to help the situation is it.

All to get votes cos ‘immigration is bad’.

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Also, a vast amount of skilled workers do ‘unskilled’ jobs because neo-liberal capitalist economics is a complete nepotistic, discriminatory failure

sigh

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I take zero joy in saying it

POPULIST!

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“spirit of the blitz” said the brexiteer at work when i showed him the stories about storing processed food and requisitioning generators for northern ireland.

Luftwaffe commander May

The Gammon salutes as she rains terror from the skies

Also, I’m guessing that your colleague was born at least 20 years after the blitz

he’s 42 :man_facepalming:

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Bingo

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So, at this point, we’re pretty certain not to get a deal acceptable to Parliament right? Being as yer ERG folks would vote down the white paper, which is presumably going to move a bit towards what the EU wants before it could potentially become a deal, then it would only pass if Labour back it.

Which if there’s not a full customs union, Labour won’t. Good job those Tory rebels held firm and got the proper meaningful vote amendment in. Wait. What?